John 18:39 Cross References - Moffatt

³⁹ But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?"

¹⁵ At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose. ¹⁶ At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Jesus Bar-Abbas; ¹⁷ so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" ¹⁸ (He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

²⁰ But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask Bar-Abbas and to have Jesus killed. ²¹ The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said. ²² Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!" ²³ "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

⁶ Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him. ⁷ (There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.) ⁸ So the crowd pressed up and started to ask him for his usual boon. ⁹ Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?" ¹⁰ (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.) ¹¹ But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead. ¹² Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?" ¹³ Whereupon they shouted again, "Crucify him." ¹⁴ "Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!"

¹⁶ so I shall release him with a whipping." ¹⁷ -- ¹⁸ But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!" ¹⁹ (This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.) ²⁰ Again Pilate addressed them, for he wanted to release Jesus, ²¹ but they roared, "To the cross, to the cross with him!" ²² He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping." ²³ But they loudly urged their demand that he should be crucified, and their shouts carried the day.